Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Yunfeng Tao

Yunfeng Zhu

Yijun Lu

Zhiyang Tang

Jun Yu

Yanchao Li

Dongbai Guo

Jibin Lei

Jia Feng

Lin Cheng

Zhushi Cheng

Kaige An

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising: adding a second set of one or more servers to a first set of servers of a consensus system to form an expanded set of servers, performing a capacity-expanding operation on one of the second set of one or more servers. The capacity-expanding operation comprises: pausing a service process related to distributed services, updating configuration information of the first set of servers in response to the second set of one or more servers being added, and resuming the service process and initiating master server election for the expanded set of servers, wherein one of the expanded set of servers is elected as a master server, the rest of the expanded set of servers are considered as slave servers. The method can also include performing the capacity-expanding operation sequentially on each of the slave servers, and subsequently, performing the capacity-expanding operation on the master server, and performing the capacity-expanding operation on the second set of one or more servers that have not been subjected to the capacity-expanding operation after completion of the capacity-expanding for the first set of servers.

Online capacity-expanding and online capacity-reducing methods and apparatuses for distributed consensus system

An apparatus for facilitating an update process of a software program is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a logic processing module arranged to maintain a connection with a network device, receive information for updating a software program from the network device, perform an updating of the software program based on the received information, and process one or more user requests. The apparatus further comprises an interface module arranged to receive a user request, store the received user request when the updating of the software program by the logic processing module is in progress, store the received user request, and after the updating of the software program completes, provide the stored user request to the logic processing module for processing.

Method and apparatus for facilitating a software update process over a network

A lease-based heartbeat protocol method is provided. The method may include sending a heartbeat request to a server device in a lease period, and receiving a heartbeat request response from the server device; and determining a retry sending at adaptive interval in response to the heartbeat request response being abnormal, and sending a retry heartbeat request to the server device again after the retry sending interval is past, until the lease period expires or a corresponding heartbeat request response is normal. As such, two successive retry heartbeat requests can be sent at a relatively large time interval at an initial stage of heartbeat request retry. At a later stage of the heartbeat request retry, the time interval associated with the retry heartbeat requests is reduced, such that re-sent heartbeat requests can be sent at a higher speed.

Lease-based heartbeat protocol method and apparatus

A system, apparatus, and method for maintaining the consistency of global information is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes retrieving current version information associated with the global information from a global information server; retrieving global information from the global information server based on the current version information; updating a period of validity of the current version information based on a status of communication with the global information server; and suspending a network service for the global information when detecting that the period of validity of the current version information has expired.

System and method for acquiring, processing, and updating global information

A system, apparatus, and method for maintaining the consistency of global information is disclosed herein. The method includes storing historical version information associated with global information; retrieving current version information associated with the global information from a global information server; generating updated historical version information based on the current version information; transmitting an update confirmation notice to the global information server; and retrieving updated global information from the global information server based on the updated historical version information.

System and method for acquiring, processing and updating global information

The present disclosure is directed to a cross-regional data transmission method and device. Metadata information sent by a corresponding client device is acquired, and the metadata information is sent to a corresponding metadata transmission node device, wherein the metadata information includes data replication progress information of the corresponding client device; to-be-forwarded data information sent by the corresponding metadata transmission node device is acquired, and the to-be-forwarded data information is pushed to the corresponding client device, wherein the to-be-forwarded data information includes data replication progress information of another client device, so that the metadata information sent by the corresponding client device is effectively sent to the corresponding metadata transmission node device; and the acquired to-be-forwarded data information sent by the corresponding metadata transmission node device is pushed to the corresponding client device, to achieve synchronization of the metadata information.

Method of cross-regional data transmission and system thereof

Embodiments of the disclosure describe a system, method, and apparatus for acquiring global information. The method comprises receiving current version information from a global information server, the current version information associated with current global information and associated with a network service; retrieving the current global information associated with the current version information and associated with the network service from the global information server; and providing or suspending the network service associated with the current global information based on a presence of a stop-write identifier in the current global information.

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